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DEReport: men's Hammer Throw - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
A masterful display of control and consistency earned Tajikistan’s 36-year-old Rio 2016 champion Dilshod Nazarov victory in the men’s hammer as Team Europe’s Wojciech Nowicki, who tops the 2018 world list with 81.85m, failed to progress beyond the first three qualifying throws.
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Report: men's Hammer Throw - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
A masterful display of control and consistency earned Tajikistan’s 36-year-old Rio 2016 champion Dilshod Nazarov victory in the men’s hammer as Team Europe’s Wojciech Nowicki, who tops the 2018 world list with 81.85m, failed to progress beyond the first three qualifying throws.
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Legendarische sprinter Michael Johnson herstelt van kleine beroerte
Sprintlegende Michael Johnson is herstellende van een kleine beroerte. Dat kondigde de 50-jarige Amerikaan zaterdagavond zelf aan op zijn Twitterpagina. Johnson stelde zijn volgers wel gerust: hij heeft geen hartproblemen en lijkt goed op weg naar een volledig herstel
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Kipruto threatens world 10km record at Prague Grand Prix
World U20 champion Rhonex Kipruto sped to a convincing victory at the Birell Prague Grand Prix, confirming his status as one of the world’s most promising distance runners by coming within two seconds of the world record at the IAAF Gold Label road race on Saturday (8).
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Yamauchi and Sustic victorious at IAU 100 km World Championship
Japan’s Hideaki Yamauchi successfully defended his title at the IAU 100 km World Championship in Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia, on Saturday (8) as his country dominated the top placings, while Nikolina Sustic took women’s victory for the host nation.
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Leather, former world record-holder, dies
The IAAF is deeply saddened to hear that Diane Leather Charles, the first woman to run a mile within five minutes, died on 5 September at the age of 85.
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Americas lead overnight at IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
With well-played jokers and a handful of surprise performances, the Americas team find themselves in the leading position at the end of the first day of the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018.
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Report: men's 4x100m relay - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
Team Americas closed out day one of the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 in fine style with a slick display of baton exchanges to seal an easy win in the men’s 4x100m relay.
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Report: women's 4x100m relay - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
Team Americas took a decisive victory in the women's 4x100m, the penultimate event of the first day of action at the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018.
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Report: men's 800m - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
Emmanuel Korir of Kenya lived up to his billing as favourite in the men’s 800m as he and his Team Africa team-mate, Nijel Amos of Botswana, ensured overall victory in finishing first and third respectively.
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Report: women's discus throw - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
The revised format of the discus competition at the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 always had the potential to throw up a surprise and that’s exactly how it turned out in Saturday afternoon’s competition, with Yaime Perez of Team Americas upsetting Sandra Perkovic of Europe to take victory.
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Report: men's shot put - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
Darlan Romani of Brazil caused somewhat of an upset to take the victory in the shot put on the first day of the IAAF Continental Cup in Ostrava with a best throw of 21.89m.
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Report: women's 3000m - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
A Championship record of 8:27.58 in the women’s 3000 by Sifan Hassan helped Team Europe to share the overall points with Team Africa in an event where the latter had played their women’s joker for the day.
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Report: men's long jump - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
African champion Ruswahl Samaai was the well-deserved winner of the men's long jump competition at the IAAF Continental Cup. The South African came out on top at the preliminary, semifinal and final stages and had the four longest jumps of the day, with a best of 8.16m.
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Report: men's 400m hurdles - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
There was no surprise in the men's 400m hurdles race, as the year's dominant man Abderrahman Samba of Qatar took a clear win, his ninth of the season in as many races. His time of 47.37 not only beat the closest contender by over a second, it also equalled the World/ Continental Cup record set by Edwin Moses in Rome 37 years ago.
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Report: men's 3000m steeplechase - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
World and Olympic 3000m steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto won maximum points for Team Africa.
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Report: women's pole vault - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
In what was by far the strongest women’s pole vault ever witnessed at the IAAF Continental Cup – and indeed the closest – Europe’s Anzhelika Sidorova claimed victory on countback from teammate Katerina Stefanidi and Sandi Morris of Team Americas.
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Report: men's discus - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
Bringing the curtain down on his season in fine style, Fedrick Dacres of Team Americas sealed victory with a performance that combined precision timing, superb strength and peerless power.
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Report: women's 400m - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain was the expected winner for team Asia-Pacific in the women's 400m. The World Championships silver medallist, still only 20 years old, reached home in 49.32 to break the stadium record of 49.67, set by Tatana Kocembova way back in 1983.
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
Report: women's 1500m - IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018
The Kenyan Winny Chebet emerged as the winner in the women's 1500m at the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 after leading for most of the race. The African champion thus became only the second African winner of this event in the World/ Continental Cup history after Hassiba Boulmerka in 1994.
Categorieën: Atletieknieuws
